Things are looking up - Sadie feels much, much better! I was starting to get worried more and more but she appears to feel much better and I won't be taking her to the doctor in town :-)

Good Morning from Vietnam! The wireles connection has been horrible the past 24 hours. But I have it back and thought it would be a good time to post.

This morning we leave for the orphanage at 8am. We will meet with Sophie's foster family, orphanage director and staff along with some staff from the adoption agency. We have all our donations and gifts packaged up. We will come back to the hotel afterwards and pack up our suitcases and go to Hoi An at about 12:30pm. We decided to not come back to this hotel just for the night since we will already be in Hoi An. So we booked another night there so we could just stay after we meet with Sophie's birth family. I hope to have good internet service after we get back in from that so I can post in the evening.

Yesterday was quite a shopping/city tour experience! We left at 8:30am in a taxi to Han Market - once at the market we were swarmed by sooooooo many vendors trying to sell their goods. It was at times overwhelming. Sophie and Sadie thought it was funny at first but as time went on it was clear that they were getting annoyed and that the fun part was over. We prepared them that everyone would take second looks at them, us, the whole picture. They look at Sophie and say "Vietnam" and then at Sadie and ??? some say "Chinese". Most are thrilled to see this family together but others are confused and appear (but probably is not the case) to be a bit annoyed. After about the 100th time of that it was clear to me that we were ready to call it a day!

While we were out we took the shopping exerience by cyclo - Sadie and Daddy took one and Sophie and I another. It was a fine misty rain off and on - I will post a picture so you can see it but let's just say - we were all quite happy to not be laying in the street in a collision. The cyclo drivers must get a kick back from the shops they take shoppers to. Between the cyclo drivers and the shop owners, it's like they want you to buy everything and they still won't be happy. Sophie sat in our cyclo giggling at all the sites - you would see someone riding a bicycle carrying more than what would fit in a pick up bed...you would see funny signs and watch a lady cooking pho on the side of the rode! Sophie was quick to tell me that she is glad she doesn't live like that. It tells me that she really gets that if she had not been adopted that this would be her way of life. But, I must say, it is in my heart that "this" way of life is not a "bad" thing - it is what it is. They want to live like this for the most part. They do not see it as we do. I hope that makes sense.

We will be at the beach hotel until Friday. Hope we have warmer and sunnier days.

Pictures to follow!